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xthexder

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  • The Planck Cruncher: The universe's fastest password cracker

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  • I don't think that matters, since when bruteforcimg a passphrase it's more like using whole words as the characters (or tokens) in the password. If there's 7776 possible unique words, it doesn't matter what characters are in the words at all. Just how many password combinations are used.

    Side note, this is assuming words without character replacements. If you consider variations with A->@ or B->8 there ends up being significantly more possible unique "words"

  • NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer

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  • What are the chances of everyone interested in this project already having a tablet? I don't own any, and I certainly wouldn't be going out to buy one just to test running Linux on it. I do have multiple old phones I could turn into development test devices however. Anything is better than nothing.

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  • I think we have a fundamental disagreement on what counts as science, and that's okay.

    Your methodology seems to imply a valid scientific experiment must be sufficiently rigorous as to improve on the current scientific consensus. And I do partially agree, it's a waste of time collecting data that's just going to be worse than previously collected, more controlled experiments.

    By my philosophy is a lot looser. To quote Adam Savage: "The only difference between screwing around and science, is writing it down"

  • Half as Hot

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  • People don't use Kelvin when referring to seasons. Sure, there's plenty of ambiguity if someone says it's 32° out without specifying the units, and you can infer from context, but that has nothing to do with Kelvin starting at absolute zero. Saying "degrees" immediately rules out Kelvin as a unit.

  • Half as Hot

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  • What? What context? The scale is the same as Celsius which is derived from the properties of water. And 0K is when there is absolutely no heat energy in the thing being measured. There is no context where this is not the case.

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  • I'm explicitly arguing that you can separate the two. I can perform a completely independent experiment in my house.For example:

    • I make a hypothesis that my stove can boil 1L of water in 10 minutes.
    • I then measure how long my stove takes to boil that water.
    • I can then record these results to inform my future cooking and water boiling experiments.
    • Proper use of the scientific method may also attempt to measure atmospheric pressure, water contaminants, and other factors that may affect the result.

    I don't have to publish the results anywhere or even talk with another person, yet I've still used the scientific method. I'm not a professional scientist, but I am an amateur one.

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  • I'd agree for the result to be useful to society, the science should be published. But science can still be useful to an individual without sharing. I use the scientific method regularly in my daily life for mundane things, and often it's just not worth the time to communicate to others because the situation is unique to me. I write it down for myself later, which doesn't make the science any less valid.

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  • I'd argue the scientific method does not have to include multiple people at all. All it is, is the process of coming up with a hypothesis, designing an experiment to check that hypothesis, and then repeating while trying to control for external factors (like your own personal bias). You can absolutely do science on your own.

    The broader field of academia and getting scientific papers published is more of a governance thing than science. You can come up with better hypotheses by reviewing other people's science, but that doesn't mean when a flat earther ignores all current consensus and does their own tests that it isn't still science.

  • FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

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  • There is however over 200 Cybertrucks for rent on Turo. I guess all the owners got bored of them already.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it

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  • I also got my first computer around then. I saved up for ages and bought the first gen Intel MacBook with an Intel Core Duo (2 cores, no hyperthreading). I still have that laptop somewhere... It blew my mind it could run Windows, and Windows laptops couldn't compare at the time.

  • Idk if y'all knew this

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  • I envy your world, free of American politics.

  • hard to argue with

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  • If you look at how Gorillas kind of walk around on their fists, it definitely makes sense that there's some evolutionary benefit to the knuckle shape. It doesn't have to be related to hitting things either. It's easiest to support yourself with a straight wrist, like if you're holding a branch, vs putting your palm flat is a lot more stress on your wrist.

  • Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source

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  • I've done basically this in the past by encrypting a text file with GPG. But a real password manager will integrate with your browser and helps prevent getting phished by verifying the domain before entering a password. It also syncs across all my devices, which my GPG file only worked well on my desktop.

  • A decline in arable land

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  • Fuck farming. It’s a dirty industry.

    That's kind of a wild takeaway... Personally I like not having to grow my own food. And a huge amount of efficiency is gained with large scale farming compared to small farms or personal growing.

    Unsustainable subsidies aren't okay, and we should strive for more environmentally friendly farms, but farming itself is not one of our problems.

  • US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions

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  • Unfortunately the answer to that is: Elon's cheap and Radar is expensive. Not so expensive that you can't get it in a base model Civic though, which just makes it that much more absurd.

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    FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills

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  • I'm not arguing against charging based on bandwidth speeds. You're right the total data transfered doesn't really make a difference.

    My point is that even just charging per Mbps, internet will always be cheaper within a data center. Just like water utility service is going to be cheaper next to a freshwater river than in the middle of the desert. There's millions of dollars in equipment you're effectively renting to get the internet to your house from the nearest datacenter. Your OVH server in comparison only needs maybe 1 extra network switch installed to get it online, and you're in a WAY bigger pool of customers to split the cost of service to the building.

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    FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills

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  • If you're fine with living in a datacenter where the direct connections to Internet backbones are available, then sure. It does cost money to install and maintain fiber/copper lines to individual residences. Of course running a new ethernet cable across an existing building designed for running cables is going to be dirt cheap.

  • First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument - NASA

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  • Fines and taxes are incentives. Companies will do whatever's cheapest, so you can make the good thing cheaper, or the bad thing more expensive. Both will have a similar effect, it's just a question of where the margins are.If a company is selling something at-cost and gets taxed, then they'll have to raise prices for the consumer, but if they're getting a stimulus from the government it gets covered by tax payers. Which one ends up being the right choice depends on the product and company in question.

  • Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities

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  • I think the strawberry problem is to ask it how many R's are in strawberry. Current AI gets it wrong almost every time.

  • Where does the music go?

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  • They've probably just got a spy satellite around earth that transmits back. Or maybe an extremely directional antenna / receiver dish would work, since they're focused on Earth specifically.